John Clutterbuck
John Clutterbuck was the second son born to John and Elizabeth (nee Payne) Clutterbuck on 8th March 1827. He had an older brother Thomas and 2 younger brothers Samuel and Jonathan. He was born in Long Sutton, Lincolnshire County, England. In the late 1840’s he was a merchant seaman which quite possibly led to his eventual move to Australia. It is difficult to say when he actually made his home in Australia, although there is a record of him travelling on the ‘Dreadnought’ from Victoria to Adelaide in July 1853, but when he did, he settled at Bowden in South Australia. It was there that he met and married Mary Ann Eaton.
Mary Ann Eaton
Mary Ann Eaton was also born in Long Sutton, England on 20th Dec 1837. Her mother’s name was also Mary Anne Eaton, but her baptism record states she is illegitimate and there is no record of her father’s name. Later, in 1847, Mary Ann senior married John’s older brother Thomas Clutterbuck and the family moved to Australia, arriving in Adelaide on 28th Jan 1848, and they settled in Bowden, South Australia, where they had 2 children, John Thomas Amsterdam and Temperance Eaton Clutterbuck.
John and Mary Ann Clutterbuck
John and Mary Ann jnr married on 31 August 1854 in Bowden. Some years after settling in Bowden; and after the birth and death of Edwin (1855-1856), and the birth of Edward (1857), the family left Bowden. Their next son, John Thomas was born in the central Victorian goldfields in 1859 and died the next year near Castlemaine; and the fourth son, Thomas Henry Walter (T H Walter) was born in Castlemaine in 1861. John was employed as a bricklayer in the Castlemaine area.
In 1875, John and Mary Ann bought land and moved to Mokoan (later called Thoona). The family lived there for about 20 years and were well established farming and business people in the community – building the “Clutterbuck Empire” according to book “The Thoona District Story”. In 1898 they purchased allotments in Kiewa, Victoria, and the family proceeded to move there. In the 1903 electoral roll John was listed as a bricklayer at Kiewa. He died on 30/9/1909 and was buried in Kiewa. Mary Ann died on 1/9/1924 and was buried with him.
John and Mary Ann’s two remaining son’s Edward and Thomas Henry Walter also moved to Kiewa as farmers.
Edward Clutterbuck
Edward married Christina Cameron in 1881, while they lived at Thoona. They had 8 children Mary Anne Helena (1882-1893), Jessie Florence (1884-1928), Ada Josephine (1886-1972), John Victor (1887-1889), Nellie Louise (1889-1939), Margaret (1891-1977), Edward James (1894-1956) and Mary Ann (1896-1898).
Edward and Christina stayed at Thoona until 1898 when they moved to Kiewa where the Clutterbucks bought farming land.
Edward was involved in many public and business pursuits during his life. During his time in Kiewa he was a councillor on the Yackandandah council and also tried his hand at politics in 1920 when he stood for the Benambra seat in the State election.
They lived and worked as greengrocers in Wodonga before their deaths. Christina died in 1936, aged 82, and Edward died in 1944 aged 87.
Thomas Henry Walter Clutterbuck
T H Walter married Margaret Hall (Maggie) Jack on 5th May 1884, while they lived at Thoona. They had 9 children Barbara Frances (1885-1956), Edith Eleanor (1886-1941), Albert Edward (1888-1970), Annie Margaret (1890-1982), John Walter (1892-1968), Harold Richard (1895-1971), Daisy Elizabeth (1897-1977), Amy Christina (Chris) (1901-1975) and William Arthur Stanley (Stan) (1905-1971).
According to Margaret Clutterbuck’s obituary, THW and she moved to Savenake in the late 1890’s where they ran a store and then in 1903 they moved to Kiewa where he was a farmer and a contractor.
THW Clutterbuck and his wife ran a refreshment room in Green St Lockhart from 1918-1924 according to the Sands directory but actually began in 1917. In 1925 THW is listed as a herdsman, and then as a farmer (at Cloverdale, out along Spanish Avenue) between 1926 and 1929. In 1930 THW and Maggie had moved back into Lockhart where they lived in Reid St and ran a shop/tea room from their home.
They were buried in the Lockhart cemetery; Maggie aged 77 in 1938 and T H Walter in 1945 aged 84.
Connection with Lockhart, NSW
In 1912, Edith Eleanor Clutterbuck married Arthur Hugh Gilmour (who she had got to know during her days in Savernake because the Gilmours also lived in that area) and settled on Arthur’s block of land near Lockhart which was called ‘Glenarthur’. This property had been purchased in 1907 by Arthur Gilmour when that part of Brookong station was broken up.
In 1915 Annie and her husband Charles Watson moved to Lockhart where they raised a family of 13 children. In 1917 Thomas Henry Walter and Margaret also moved to Lockhart with the younger children. Daisy and Chris eventually married brothers William Wesley and John Jack Matthews and settled on properties ‘Ruby Park’ and ‘Kiwi’, neighbouring their sister Edith. Albert and Elizabeth also lived in the Lockhart area for several years.
There are currently many Clutterbuck descendants still living in the Lockhart area but none of them have the Clutterbuck surname as they have descended from the daughters. However, as you walk along the pavers in Green Street Lockhart you will find many of the names recorded there.